Results for “Prime Minister Shamir”

…abin's twin goals of peace and security? He is a consummate international diplomat and served with great distinction as prime minister a decade ago. His ardent desire for peace may be part of his problem, for many people believe he is too eager to cut a deal, too dovish and not s...

…ect. A preemptive Israeli military strike to destroy the weapons does not appear technically feasible: Even if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were ready to change the status quo, Assad is believed to have stored bulk chemical agents and filled (or quickly filled) shel...

…es to the parents of Nir Poraz. “This added loss has shaken me terribly,” he said. He told me he also believed that the Prime Minister had approved the rescue using his best judgement on the information that he had available. I spent time separately speaking to Mrs Wachsman. | tr...

…ecretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former President Bill Clinton, Senator George Mitchell, Al Gore, Kofi Annan, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, George Soros, Stephen Hawking, Sir Paul McCartney, Mick Jaggar and Salman Rushdie. We are a programme th...

… how to confront the hijackers. Nor did we have any orders. The people who would give them — Dado, Dayan and ultimately Prime Minister Meir — were still deciding how to respond. But when I reached the control tower, at about 9:30pm, the order came, if not to mount an operation, a...

…nomic development and state-building efforts — especially in the West Bank, under the leadership of President Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, which have helped lay the foundations for Palestinian statehood — and endorse the position articulated by the World Bank and the Un...

…ed States at every turn. Since then, Japan has become the poster child for economic stagnation and political paralysis. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been unwilling or unable to get his promised reforms enacted, and the country’s economy continues to shrink. Mexico is watching i...

…Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Donald Trump, Sen. John Kerry, various members of the Kennedy clan and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, among many others. The British press has been having a field day digging up new details about Epstein’s friendship with Prince Andre...

…eighten the Islamist-secular divide that has featured in the Tunisian transition and the Arab Spring at large. Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali described the event as the “assassination of the Tunisian revolution” and promised to dissolve the Islamist-led government and form...

…head. An Israeli TV program two decades later unearthed a summary of the discussion, written by his military aide. “The Prime Minister approves the target... This is an operation we should go for when the probability of success is very high,” it said. “Thus, we have to build the...

…ecretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former President Bill Clinton, Senator George Mitchell, Al Gore, Kofi Annan, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, George Soros, Stephen Hawking, Sir Paul McCartney, Mick Jaggar and Salman Rushdie. We are a programme th...

…s one awaits this tortuous Godot, one might recall a forecast of a bomb by 1999 (Shimon Peres) or 2004 (Ehud Barak), or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s talk of “a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs,” or my friend Jeffrey Goldberg’s allusion in The Atlantic la...

…Strategist, Hillary Clinton for President 2008. Author, Microtrends. Fmr pollster to President Clinton. Fmr pollster to Prime Minister Tony Blair. *Lois Quam*— Executive Director, Global Health Initiative — part of the State Department and she reports directly to Secretary Clint...

… Canadian markets received a boost from the announcement of the proposed recreational cannabis legislation in Canada by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and, more recently, from Constellation Brands’ investment in Canopy Growth. © 2017 Ackrell Capital, LLC | Member FINRA/SIPC 127...

…e attacks. To the extent there was any political gain, it was to burnish Tzipi Livni’s credentials as a tough potential Prime Minister ahead of the election. That was not her intent. Of all the politicians I’ve known, she is among the least interested in such games, especially wi...